Help smoking Team-BHP members quit smoking

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I myself do not smoke, but my friends do. Developed a free android application to help people quit smoking.

But for it to work, it requires you to press a button on an android widget each time you smoke. Within a few days, it draws graphs about your smoking patterns, consumption. Also gives out interesting facts about the total life you will end up reducing, tar inhaled, money spent. The most useful feature being a widget which counts the time since your last smoke. It will be red colored indicating you should not smoke right now, or green colored indicating that you may smoke now. If you follow its advice (which might be difficult i agree) you will end up reducing your cigarettes smoked number in a week.

Search for "Ciggie" in Android market. Its a free application All the best.

I would say its probably worse than heroin. Its legal (unlike heroin), you do not have to look far and wide for one (unlike heroin), its cheap (unlike herion .... I think) and its basically so very very handy. Drive, take a stroll or whatever and just simply light up. You dont ever need an excuse.

Butttttttt I have to confess. I almost reached for that cigarette. All the while that he was smoking, I kept shifting from side to side. I could barely look at him. Uuuffffffffffffffffff this thing is soooooooooooooo hard to let go.

Righto. You can smoke anywhere / anytime / as many times as you wish and it is a socially accepted vice (In the sense people will frown if you drink at work place or during a working day but smoking is alright).

The first few days will be difficult but at the same time since the resolve is strong, you will beat the urge. Dont worry, the urge will taper off. And yeah, the intangible benefits are many

^^ ch.nathan: Sorry mate, but that won't work. My suggestion is,wait till you've had your lunch, or when the skies are overcast or whatever your weakest moment is, go out, light up, savour the smoke to the fullest KNOWING it's your last one and then quit.

My bet is you may even throw it away before it's fully done, knowing that you are now fully satisfied and don't need to smoke another cigarette n your life.

I quit too this Saturday, slippped once on Sunday afternoon, but have been a good boy since then . Thanks all for sharing your experiences, this thread was one of the biggest motivators for me to take this decision after 8 years of continuous ( Read 10 -12 ) cigarettes a day.

Exactly my situation. I've quit lots of times and never crossed 24hrs.

Yep... that was the story of most of my previous attempts.

The thing is, if you go without smoking all day, the hit from that evening cigarette is so immense it is hard to believe nobody spiked it with something illegal. It is a great whoosh of mind blowing nicotine. Nothing at all like the experience of smoking when you do it every few hours or minutes.

It leads to spending the rest of the evening trying to recapture that experience. You never do, of course: you just drift back into being a routine smoker again.

Electronic cigarettes are just an alternative nicotine-delivery system that bypasses the pitfalls of pollution/inconveniencing non-smokers. It also doesn't deposit any tar in your lungs since there is no actual combustion- presumably the only thing that goes into your lungs is some steam (which is a good thing, right?)

But important to note that you are still subjecting your body to nicotin which is still a poison and highly addictive. SO I would say, No, it doesn't help cure your smoking habit.